MAS Wants a 21-Day Path for Complex Funds. In May It Dropped the Advice Requirement.
MAS has proposed an Alternative Funds Appendix that would let a derivative-heavy or undiversified retail fund be authori...
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In February the BSP Said 70% Was Not Doable. In July It Said It Was Likely
The Philippine central bank's outlook on its 2028 digital payments target reversed in five months. The measurement under...
Indonesia's Crypto Market Now Answers to the Regulator That Supervises Banks
On 1 July the governance and reporting duties of a financial-sector business took effect for Indonesian crypto platforms...
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Klarna Applies to Become a US Bank — Not Act Like One — With a Utah Charter Bid
Klarna filed on 6 July for a Utah industrial bank charter to bring its US banking in-house and reduce its reliance on pa...
Stablecoins Are Becoming Settlement Plumbing — and Singapore's Rulebook Is About to Matter
Early-June moves by Mastercard and Visa show stablecoins shifting from speculative asset to back-end settlement rail. As...
SoFi Coach Shows Where Fintech AI Is Really Heading
SoFi Coach brings AI financial guidance directly into a consumer fintech app. The bigger signal is not chat itself, but...
Nubank Posts $5 Billion Quarterly Revenue and 135 Million Customers as NuFormer AI Goes Live in Credit Decisioning
Nu Holdings crossed $5 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time in Q1 2026, reported 135 million customers global...
Western Union Picks Fireblocks for USDPT — Stablecoin Settlement Hits Remittance Rails First in Philippines and Bolivia
On 4 May 2026 Western Union announced Fireblocks will power USDPT, the company's first U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin. Se...
Malaysia Fintech 2030 Launches Talent-Pipeline MoU at Money20/20 Asia in Bangkok
The Fintech Association of Malaysia signed a memorandum with Manaf Gardner Associates at Money20/20 Asia on 2 May 2026,...
PayPal's AI Reckoning: New CEO Cuts 4,760 Jobs and Bets $1.5 Billion on Machine-Led Transformation
PayPal announced 4,760 job cuts (20% of workforce) as new CEO Enrique Lores restructures the company into three business...
Coinbase Joins PayPal in AI-Driven Job Cuts: Is the Great Fintech Workforce Reset Just Beginning?
Coinbase (14% cuts) and PayPal (20% cuts) announced AI-driven workforce reductions on the same day, capping a wave that...
The $860 Billion Agentic Commerce Opportunity: How AI Is Rewiring Global Payments From the Inside Out
PayPal's $860B TAM estimate for its three new business units frames the scale of the agentic commerce opportunity as Str...
Bitcoin Breaks $80,000 at Consensus 2026 as ETF Inflows Hit $1.97 Billion in April
Bitcoin broke $80,000 on May 4 as Consensus 2026 opened in Miami. April ETF inflows hit $1.97B — the strongest month of...
Visa Launches "Agentic Ready" Programme in Singapore as Stablecoin Settlements Hit $7 Billion Annually
Visa has launched its Agentic Ready programme with 13 Singapore issuers to prepare banks for AI-agent payments, while it...
Robinhood Gets MAS Approval for Singapore — What It Means for Retail Investors
Robinhood received in-principle approval from MAS to launch brokerage services in Singapore. Here is what this means for...
Western Union's USD Stablecoin Is Coming in May 2026 — What ASEAN Remittance Senders Need to Know
Western Union is launching a USD-backed stablecoin in May 2026 for faster, cheaper cross-border transfers. Here is what...
Singapore CPF Investment Returns Hit 10-Year High — What Savers Need to Know in 2026
Singapore CPF investment returns hit a 10-year high in 2025. Here is what CPF members, SRS account holders, and retail i...
Malaysia Advances ASEAN's First 24/7 RTGS System — Here Is What It Means for Regional Payments
Malaysia advanced ASEAN's first 24/7 Real-Time Gross Settlement system. Here is what this means for businesses and cross...
Singapore DBS Bank Cuts 3,000 Jobs — The AI Automation Reality in Financial Services
Singapore banks reduced headcount by nearly 3,000 roles in 2025, with DBS accounting for most of the decline. Here is wh...
Stablecoin Market Hits $240 Billion — And Banks Are Starting to Issue Their Own
The stablecoin market has crossed $240 billion as traditional banks begin issuing their own stablecoins. Here is what th...
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